J. E. R. Staddon

John Eric Rayner Staddon (born 1937) is a British-born American psychologist. He has been a critic of Skinnerian behaviorism and proposed a theoretically-based "New Behaviorism".[1]

J. E. R. Staddon
Born
John Eric Rayner Staddon

March 19, 1937
Academic background
Alma materHarvard University
ThesisThe effect of "knowledge of results" on timing behavior in the pigeon (1964)

Biography

Educated first at University College London, a three-year period interrupted by two years[2] in Central Africa (N. Rhodesia, now Zambia). After graduation from UCL, he went to the U. S., to Hollins College in Virginia for a year, and then to Harvard University where he studied under Richard Herrnstein, obtaining his PhD in Experimental Psychology in 1964 with a thesis The effect of "knowledge of results" on timing behavior in the pigeon.[3] He has done research at the MIT Systems Lab, University of Oxford, the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Ruhr Universität, Universität Konstanz, the University of Western Australia and York University, United Kingdom, and taught at the University of Toronto from 1964 to 1967.

Since 1967, Staddon has been at Duke University; since 1983 he has been the James B. Duke Professor of psychology, and a professor of biology and neurobiology. He is an honorary visiting professor at the University of York (UK), and was an editor of the journals Behavioural Processes and Behavior & Philosophy.

Publications

Books
  • Handbook of Operant behavior Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: (1977) Prentice-Hall, co-edited with W. K. Honig
  • Scientific Method: How science works, fails to work and pretends to work (Routledge, 2017)
  • The New Behaviorism, 2nd Edition (Psychology Press, 2014)
  • Adaptive Dynamics: The Theoretical Analysis of Behavior (MIT/Bradford, 2001)
  • Adaptive Behavior and Learning, 2nd Edition (Cambridge University Press), 2016.
  • Unlucky Strike: Private Health and the Science, Law and Politics of Smoking. University of Buckingham Press. 2013. ISBN 9781908684370.
  • The Englishman: Memoirs of a Psychobiologist. University of Buckingham Press, 2016.
  • Staddon, J. E. R. (Ed.) (1980). Limits to action: The allocation of individual behavior. New York: Academic Press.

Writings

References
  1. The New Behaviorism: Mind, Mechanism and Society, (2nd edition Psychology Press, 2014).
  2. Staddon, John (2016). The Englishman: Memoirs of a Psychobiologist. Legend Press Ltd. p. 106. ISBN 9781908684660.
  3. http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990039676860203941/catalog
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